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Monotypic taxon: Genus †Ambolestes Bi, Zheng, Wang, Cignetti, Yang & Wible, 2018 (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation Bi et al., 2018
Original name, rank & spelling Bi, S., Zheng, X., Wang, X., Cignetti, N.E., Yang, S. & Wible, J.R. 2018. Nature 558: 390 ("gen. nov.").

Etymology

Latin ambo, both. Ref: S. Bi et al., 2018: 390. ("in reference to the mixture of features previously held to be from eutherians and metatherians")
Greek lestes, robber. Ref: S. Bi et al., 2018: 390. ("a common ending for Cretaceous eutherians")

Types

Type, by monotypyAmbolestes zhoui Bi et al., 2018 Ref: S. Bi et al., 2018: 390. [new] [implicit]
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